Comments on: Jamie Lee Curtis: A fan of simple living

By: John

John — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:27:35 +0000

Jamie looks so great for 50. I cannot believe she has turned that age! I agree on the purging as well. Why do we need all that stuff?

By: Laurel

Laurel — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:41:49 +0000

About ten years ago I decided I would no longer wear uncomfortable shoes or itchy nylons, so I got rid of them. In the winter I wear tights or silk long johns with boots. At one point I got rid of any clothing that wasn’t black, but color has gradually crept back into my life. I think it may be time for some wardrobe pruning soon since every color leads to more purchases - needing items to match other items and so on. I am already pretty low maintenance, but I love the idea of no maintenance, but still looking good like Jamie Lee Curtis!

By: kimberly

kimberly — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:33:05 +0000

I’m not a very fussy girl so I like JLC’s perspective. Her choice to have a streamlined wardrobe is probably very freeing to her.

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:50:42 +0000

She’s such an inspiration. I love the fact that the only person to disagree with the grey hair is a man… I’m starting to grey now at 28 and considering hair colour - I think I’ll leave it and see!

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:40:45 +0000

she’s awesome. seriously.

By: Taka

Taka — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:28:17 +0000

If I had Jamie Lee Curtis’ life, I’d let my hair go gray too. No, wait, my hair IS gray, I just don’t crow over it. And I don’t believe for a minute that she owns only one pair of jeans. Phooey. This interview reads like a Hollywood script.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:11:52 +0000

@Sue:

ABSOLUTELY you could do what JLC is doing but with brown and cream instead. It’s a classic approach to one’s wardrobe to adopt a very simple palette and only buy those colors. Brown and cream would be a wonderful palette.

And let’s face it — while we can all wear black and white, not all of us really look our best in black and white. JLC has the coloring for it. I don’t. Black and white both make me look like I’ve been ill. Brown and navy blue, however, both make me look like a million bucks. I have the hardest time choosing one of the two, mostly because I seem to always have trouble finding what I want in either color.

If you take JLC’s approach you’ll be able to get by with a lot less clothing and you’ll always look sharp. You’ll need fewer shoes/handbags etc too.

By: Keeper Of Stuff

Keeper Of Stuff — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:22:34 +0000

Tara, my comment is regarding your comment, “I loved her description of the aging process as a distillation of personal style, and how that frees you up to live more simply.”

A friend once told me her theory on aging. She said that, barring health issues, people generally become MORE of whatever they were when they were young. Like boiling sugar and water to make syrup, the sweet people tend to get even sweeter, and the bitter people tend to get more bitter, etc.

In the ensuing years, I have often reflected on her theory, and have found it has great validity.

By: John of Indiana

John of Indiana — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:12:09 +0000

I agree, Craig, 50 is too young to be grey. Or balding.
Unfortunately, I had little say in the matter.
Must a gene or something that kicks in around 50 that makes women with grey hair look sexy as all get out…

By: Larisa

Larisa — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:33:57 +0000

Yeah, I started going grey at 17, and it’s starting to get noticable now, at 27. I’ve been considering henna (I’ve got pretty dark hair, which makes the grey stand out a lot), but I’m not sure I want one more thing to add to my routine. Wearing only black and white seems a bit extreme to me, but if it works for her, great.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:38:58 +0000

gray here at 17! fought it for 20 years, and said, enough! My hubby loves my gray, and although I sometimes look at hairdye…I know the commitment it takes with just one box…the growing out part(all the way) is long!!
I believe in simplicity in clothing, and have 3 colors capri’s, and mix and match with 6 different shirts for a season…easy to get dressed, laundry and life is too short to bother (to me) with the teen/tweentie stress I had on clothing!
I too agree how nice to see “hollywood” show that simple is good for them instead of the extravagance usually portrayed, but Ms. Curtis has always seemed to march to a different drummer than the usual hollywood crowd!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:09:24 +0000

I met Jamie Lee Curtis a while back when she was promoting her children’s book. The book is fun, but I really loved her sense of humor. My mom (at the ripe old age of now “over 70″) still does PR and one of the things that she was tasked by her client (independent bookstore where JLC was coming to speak) was to find out the top 3 books that the author had on their “wish list.” The bookstore gave them away to the author for free. This was a while back, but her books were The Reader, The Pirate’s Son, and The Daughter of the Queen of Sheba.

She was a really really interesting gal.

By: Tara

Tara — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:00:32 +0000

Funny, I read an excerpt of her interview in “The Week” (a magazine that summarizes notable news from other publications each week) and thought “Wow, this would be great for Unclutterer!” I *loved* her description of the aging process as a distillation of personal style, and how that frees you up to live more simply.

By: Harris

Harris — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:31:51 +0000

Jamie Lee Curtis is so together! Isn’t it the ultimate “unclutter” to be free in our choices of clothes, hair, etc and not feel we have to follow the latest trend? Almost every woman I see on TV looks uncomfortable in her clothes. Tugging at her too short skirt, fru-fru overdone hair and spike heels. I’ve always heard women dress for other women. Well, lets give each other a break….let’s accept each other, after all, we are all sisters.

By: Cynthia Friedlob, The Thoughtful Consumer

Cynthia Friedlob, The Thoughtful Consumer — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:53:45 +0000

I’m a great fan of a simple wardrobe — How to Get Dressed Without Driving Yourself Crazy — and I went gray when I was 45. I wear simple earrings and rely on black, cream and gray in my wardrobe (tossing in a red bag or shoes, or maybe a pale blue shirt on occasion).

Now if I could only get the stupid piles of papers off my desk, I’d have a totally simplified life!

By: Ann at One Bag Nation

Ann at One Bag Nation — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:18:59 +0000

We love Jamie Lee Curtis’ kids books especially the adoption book. I’m struggling with what to do about my hair; as an older mom, it’s very tempting to color it - which I was planning to do today!

There’s a great article at CarrieandDanielle.com about investing in a few things - be it clothing or something else - that you really love. I think it’s very good advice.

http://carrieanddanielle.creat.....255BD4B6A6

By: tazistanjen

tazistanjen — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:03:18 +0000

She sure looks great in grey.

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:52:57 +0000

I admire Jamie Lee Curtis for a lot of reasons… she seems like a very honest person.

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:51:43 +0000

Great article and very inspiring.

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:03:39 +0000

50 too young to go gray? Nonsense! At 35, I decided I had better uses for my time and money than to color my hair every month. I quit and never looked back. Nice to see that the famous and influential are catching up with my fashion sense!

Love the idea of an all black and white wardrobe! I wonder if I can pull it off with brown and cream?